Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Merleau-Ponty , who met Nizan a few weeks later at Laurent Casanova 's villa in Porto , recalls that Nizan seemed resigned to the inevitability of war , but still confident in the belief that a tripartite alliance between France , Great Britain and the USSR was a necessary and inevitable prerequisite to the defeat of fascism . |
| 2 | Carl Llewellyn , 26 , the winning substitute , says he owes Adams a few big drinks after the advice he received on how to ride Party Politics . |
| 3 | I was very privileged to meet her when I visited Georgia a few years ago : a remarkable and very courageous woman . |
| 4 | Naturally such a prolonged absence was a little worrying , especially in view of , well , the circumstances ; and in fact an anxious Ashenden had rung Kidlington a few minutes previously , just in case the police knew anything . |
| 5 | A Canadian friend who visited Junieh a few years ago said that it was an excellent and interesting place for a cruising yacht to go : cheap , with pleasant , welcoming people and without danger , provided you stay away from the trouble spots . |
| 6 | She turned round as she reached the pavement to discover Urquhart a few steps behind . |
| 7 | On the other hand , Linnaeus , who had visited Chelsea a few months earlier , came in for severe criticism : ‘ … he has demolished not only Species but Genus without the least reason for so doing but that of having his method establish 'd and made universal , which I venture to affirm will be of very short duration ’ . |
| 8 | My sister-in-law was allowed to visit Palestine a few years ago . |
| 9 | He showed Wednesday a few of his favourites , including the old workshop , the small room with the cutlery stuck into the walls and the one he had discovered the week before with a huge oak tree growing through the floor . |
| 10 | Schoener 's globe of the world then known shows Japan a few hundred miles off Mexico ; the historian López de Gomara says that in his negotiations with the Emperor Magellan always insisted that the Moluccas were ‘ no great distance from Panama , and the Gulf of San Miguel which Vasco Núñez de Balboa discovered ’ . |
| 11 | and dad 's been away so I 've sold Peter a few cars . |
| 12 | Give Whelan a few games and Deane something to think about while he 's on the bench . |
| 13 | I took Gillian to see Oliver a few weeks after we met . |
| 14 | She followed Edgar a few paces across the room . |
| 15 | She married a chap called Parkes a few years back but he went off and left her . |
| 16 | Merseyside police have revealed that they probably killed James a few hours after they took him from the Strand shopping centre in Bootle . |
| 17 | Some of Eric Le Red 's former managers in France sent Ferguson a few tips , via TODAY , on handling his fickle Frenchman . |
| 18 | It took Marie a few seconds to realize who Gary was : nobody , not even the teachers at school , called Gazzer by his real name . |
| 19 | We discussed the administration of the hospital , especially the shift times of the nurses , to allow Frank a few minutes alone with Salome . |
| 20 | I only saw Stephen a few times before I went back to prison . |
| 21 | ‘ You know , do n't you ? ’ sobbed Sarella a few seconds later . |
| 22 | In mid-afternoon , he hove to , dropped anchor and took Mary the few hundred yards to the sports field , basking a little in their ceremonious passage — the work and self-forgetfulness of the day brought out every best quality in her and yet , paradoxically , although at the pitch of her beauty , she herself was more unaware of it than at any other time . |
| 23 | Lionel Luyt told me that it was only when he reached Europe a few years later that he realized how far ahead of his South African contemporaries John had been , doing things which he must have invented for himself because he had not had the chance to see them put into practice by others . |
| 24 | It took D'Arcy a few seconds to connect the familiar face in the unfamiliar surroundings . |
| 25 | After receiving the evidence , the insurance company offered Susan a few hundred pounds compensation . |
| 26 | More to the point , the affair earned Owen a few days ' breathing space . |
| 27 | He was sitting and he said oh I 'll write Iris a few lines . |
| 28 | Near panic had set in when Tass news agency quoted a woman who had just arrived in Novgorod , near St Petersburg , as saying that she had fled Kyrgyzstan a few days before the ‘ evictions ’ were to begin . |
| 29 | Having left Scratchwood a few moments after the other vehicle , the mustard-coloured van , its roof rack carrying a decorator 's ladder , also turned off at Junction 4 , but then picked up the Uxbridge road before turning south towards Harrow-on-the-Hill and the home of Beth and Ali Christie . |
| 30 | He had learned from watching Rupert a few minutes before that the quicker you answered the quicker you were released . |